Thundercat's Groooooooow

Ah excellent thanks for the feed back 5 oclock! It looked like a decent fan, and since it was designed for home hvac use, I figured it was prolly decent quality.

Well I never posted those pics yesterday, and its good, cus I would be posting more tonight, I'm just home on my lunch break, but I just checked everything, and the Ereals are going crazy!!!! Seriously there is hardly any spot on the tray that isn't covered with shrooms. Also one of the power skunks is starting to poke its head above soil. So that will be the third to break ground. It still has the seeds husk on it, but its right at ground level at the moment.

Ok so pics will be up shortly, they are loading on to photobucket right now. Things are lookin pretty good finally. Except for a small area of sort of black lookin mold, on the small Ereal tray, everything else looks great. I'm gonna leave them in long enough to get this first flush done, it should only be another day or two for a couple of them. Then I'll pull that tray. It was only an experiment any ways. I don't know if the crystals did it, but that should have been the only extra variable. But its got a couple good size mushrooms on it. I also myc transfered my KS. Of the 6 jars I cooked last night 3 got cooked on the bottom. I don't know what is causeing this, but its pissing me off. I emptied one out, then poured the good part of the other two into it. We'll see if it gets contamed. I still have about half a pint of colonized KS myc in the fridge, I will cook up some more and tranfer the rest soon. I think I have mold in one more of the SA jars as well. Three of them are pretty much colonized, but the fourth has been taking its time, and I looked today, and it looks like mold starting. But I'm not worried about it. I still have 3 good pints, and about 5cc of spores for the SA. So I'll be able to fruit some, and get prints, and still colonize more with the spores in the mean time. I've been seriously thinking about getting another FC so I could do 4 trays at a tiime instead of just 2.

Well now what makes it an even better night, 2 of the power skunks are starting to come up, and I peaked at the others, and I think all the power skunks might sprout, and maybe the last purple power. Possibly even one of the thais, I couldn't get a good look at them. So the next couple days should be exciting. I can't wait to get them into the 2liters. I need to go get some ph down, some lime for my soil, and I was gonna look for some worm castings, and bat guano for the soil mix too. I wanna have some nice rich soil. The stuff I got is supposed to be all organic, so I'm gonna keep everything else as organic as possible. I'd like to get a silica booster, I think its in seaweed extract, and I know several companies sell differant ones. I also need to get to the hydro store, so I can pick up my panda film, and so I can decide on nutes finally. I'm open to suggestions guys. I want to keep it simple, and if possible organic. I've thought about doing some guano teas to add some extra boost once in a while, but I wouldn't mind running atleast a good organic base nute, and boosters. I had been thinking about using the fox farm grow big, and big bloom respectively (veg/flower), and tiger bloom as well. I loved how well Kings girls grew, so I can only hope mine like it as much. well heres the pics, there finally done.









Enjoy guys I sure am.

hello man! puff puff pass>>>

best of luck wit the scrog!

Thanks man, I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for stoppin by the journal too. I'm really getting excited about things now. All of the power skunks are breaking ground this morning. So now I have 5 power skunks, and 2 purple powers. So as long as these all grow, I think I'm only gonna plant one of the afghan seeds. That will give me a great mix of buds, and I'll still have afghan seeds for the future.

Well guys things are well. I started harvesting the ereals last night, then more this morning, I imagine the rest will either be done when I get home from work tonight, or at least by morning. I can say that I definitely got more then a oz again just from the feel of the mushrooms, and how many there are. I pulled a hand full (maybe 4-5g dry) off the small tray, but the big tray is packed!! I also decided to flip the KS tray back over last night. I found a handfull of mushrooms trying to grow on the bottom. So I cleaned it up, and lightly recased it again, and its back in the FC. I don't know if I'll get anyhting off it, but its not contamed, so it can't hurt to see right. I suppose both of my experiments have been failures, I didn't get any big huge mushrooms from the water crystals, and flipping the tray doesn't work, lol, but atleast I learned something on both accounts. I'm getting ready to mix up some soil and put these seedlings into the 2liter bottles. I'm going to mix 3 parts soil, with 1part perlite, and 1 part vermiculite. Also I'll add some wate crystals to that to hold moisture cus I think it should drian pretty well with that mix. I haven't gotten any worm castings yet, I'll mix that in the large batch of soil for the final transplant.

Heres some pics of the Ereals. So far I've been impressed with how well these and the KS have both grown. I wish they were bigger, but I suppose I can't complain about quantity either. So far I havn't seen any growth in the jars I myc transfered. But I figured it could take a couple days since the myc was in the fridge for the last month. I put a large tablespoon of myc into each jar, so I think that should be plenty to get them colonizing.






I might take some more pics after the sprouts are all transplanted we'll see wht time it is. Latta guys TC

So apparently the "organic soil" I thought I bought is not actually soil. I finally looked at the bags, its called "Incred-A-Soil. Apparently its an all organic compost. It says on the bag not to use as a soil, what do you guys think? It only says its got 1.5% N, 1% phosphates, and 2% potash, do you think mixed with the perlite, and vermiculite this could work, I just don't want to fuck these plants up. And I have 6 bags of this stuff now!!!

Seeing all those mushrooms makes my mouth water. I love them but have a very hard time finding them where I live.

Where in the midwest are you at, I used to live in Indiana for awhile.

Deep in the heart of it all my friend.....Not to far from chi town, not far from St Louis and not far from Indy

Ah fun the middle of the flat lands, lol. I had a buddy from St louis. so 5 oclock, are you a soil guy or hydro? Did you read my delema with the "soil", what do you think?

Dude return that stuff and buy a bale of Promix HP or BX with mycorise! Promix is the shit bro, wouldn't use anything else!

I'm gonna go get either some promix, or some FF ocean forest. Just for an experiment I'm gonna plant 1 of them in a mix of 2 parts compost, 1 part verm, 1 part perlite. We'll see what happens, I can't go get any other soil till tuesday.

thats simular to my reflector im using 20 25 watt 100 cfl 2000 watts

hey thundercat:
what i do is just use the perlite, vermiculite, and spag moss, take a look at a few of the last posts on my journal. I ended up cutting out the additives to my soiless mix to cut down on costs, about 75$ for all 3 in the big ass bags (5cu yds i think), i go from transplanting clone to veg 2 times a month before i need a new bag of per and verm, {so far I have potted 98 grow bags and went thru 3 bags of perm and verm}( the spag moss lasts for about 4 bags of the other before it is replaced because of the mix ratio)
pros
to this mixture is that is easy to flush, soils with "additives" in them you really never flush that stuff out, organic or not it is still stuff in the soil that isnt coming out during the flush ya know
its cheaper per volume than that other stuff
and its easier to get ahold of, at least where i live theres 3 stores that carry the big bags within 10mins of my house
cons
are the plants really only get feed whatever you put in the water, but if your using good nutes that shouldnt be a problem
mixing big volumes of perlite really suck!! get a respirator when you mix it up and dont mix it in your grow room, the dust will get on everything!!

i choppy my first crop tonite!! but the soil i used in that batch had worm castings in it and during my flush the water never came out totally clear, I think its cause of the worm castings which i cut out of the next batches, well see anyway but the test buds i took from this crop did have a slight harshness to the back of the throat, im hoping that is gone with this finished batch. (which i think still could go another week but i need the funds before then!!)

Lookin good TC!! Have you ever thought about gettin a baby bloomer? Its a mini hydro set-up. It will hold 10 plants in half gal pots, and doesnt take up much space at all. Its like 12 x 36 inches, and only about a foot tall. If you look at the pics of the clones in my kush and SS log you will see it.

Thundercat said:

Ah fun the middle of the flat lands, lol. I had a buddy from St louis. so 5 oclock, are you a soil guy or hydro? Did you read my delema with the "soil", what do you think?

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Soil. I have read most of your thread but it was so long that after 10 pages I skipped to the end. You can check out my grow through my link in my sig.....

Well I'm glad you've been hangin around, seem nice enough,lol. If you really skipped to the endafter 10 pages then you missed all the really cool stuff. Ijust started to get mushroom harvests the last several weeks. I had alot of pics of the progress. I'm just now finally getting this grow on the way! Its lookin good too.

All of the power skunks are up and lookin happy guys!! Also the last of the 3 purple powers is also up and happy! The other two purple powers I decided today to put into a mix of that compost with some perlie, and some verm. Its more of an experiment then anything. I might have to seriously think about whether I'm gonna stay soil, or go hydro. I havn't really invested any money in soil except the compost which I am gonna give to my brother for his out door veggy garden! So I may go hydro, I gotta look at my options, I need something that can be moved very easily, and I reallywould like to still do my scrogs. Ah and if I go to hydro I can't try the air baskets. Well I gotta think. Talk to you guys tomorrow.

damn man... another nice shroom harvest ... just wait till you can pull some green

Sucks about the soil you bought. Are you sure its straight compost or maybe its a mix.

Anyways man I really recommend getting some pro-mix I love the stuff and would never grow in anything else.